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Response to Letter CC6: Thomas Drennan, dated September 17, 2024 <br />This comment letter was received after the public review and comment period ended (July 6, 2023, through <br />August 23, 2023). As stated in Section 15088 of the CEQA Guidelines, Lead Agencies are not required to <br />respond to letters received outside of the noticed comment period. However, the following responses have <br />been prepared to provide clarity regarding the environmental concerns that have been raised. <br />Comment CC6.1: This comment states that the commenter represents 20,000 members of the International <br />Union of Operating Engineers Local 12, which is a trade union part of the OC/LA Building Trades and that <br />the commenter requests that the City Council postpone the agreement with Bristol Related to allow more time <br />for a labor agreement to be reached. The comment states that without a local hire agreement, many local <br />trade unions will not be on the job site. The comment says to look at OC V!be, which has a labor agreement <br />and that it doesn't make sense to have so many local hire individuals miss out on working on such a great <br />project. <br />Response CC6.1: The comment does not raise any specific environmental concern with the analysis within the <br />Draft Supplemental EIR or requirements of the proposed Specific Plan. CEQA is an environmental protection <br />statute that is concerned with physical changes to the environment (CEQA Guidelines Section 15358(b)). The <br />environment includes land, air, water, minerals, flora, fauna, ambient noise, and objects of historic or aesthetic <br />significance (CEQA Guidelines Section 15360). The Project's potential economic and social effects are not <br />considered effects on the environment (CEQA Guidelines Sections 15064(e) and 151 31(a)). Thus, consistent <br />with CEQA, the Draft Supplemental EIR includes an analysis of the Project's potentially significant physical <br />impacts on the environment and does not include substantial discussion of the Project's economic or social <br />effects, such as labor agreements. This comment will be forwarded to City decisionmakers as part of the <br />Staff Report for the Project. <br />34 <br />